When using a third-party ICQ client, you may encounter the problem of incompatibility of the Cyrillic encoding. Your interlocutor will receive readable messages, and you will receive gibberish from him in response. There are several ways to solve this problem.
Instructions
Step 1
Consider upgrading to an official ICQ client. Previously, the main argument against such a transition was the incompatibility of this program with a number of operating systems. But after the acquisition of ICQ by the Mail. Ru group, official clients of this service for Linux and even J2ME were developed.
Step 2
If you are accessing the ICQ service via Jabber using a so-called transport, the problem may be with it. You cannot change its settings on your own. If all messages arrive in a distorted form, just change the transport. Sometimes, when using ICQ in this way, not received, but sent messages turn out to be distorted, and only if at the time of their sending by you the receiving subscriber was offline. If you are faced with just such a problem, just send messages to your interlocutors only when they are online. If this does not suit you, also change transport. Sometimes it helps to have a conversation with a person who has a server with transport at his disposal. Let him know about the problem and he will try to fix it.
Step 3
If you encounter the problem of distortion of the encoding of Cyrillic characters in incoming messages when connecting to the ICQ server by a third-party client directly, the problem may not lie in the client itself, but in its incorrect settings. They probably have an item that allows you to select CP1251 encoding for incoming ICQ messages, rather than UTF-8. The location of this item depends on the client, so to find it, try to look at all the menus and tabs of the program settings panel.
Step 4
Finally, if you did not find an item in the settings menu that allows you to configure the encoding, but you don’t want to use the official ICQ client in principle, try using another alternative client of this service, and then configure it in the above way. After the acquisition of the ICQ service by the Mail. Ru group, the terms of its services have changed, and now the development of non-commercial third-party clients no longer violates them. Therefore, you should no longer be afraid that one fine moment the support of such customers will be suspended again, as has happened several times in the past.
